March 15, 2022 In a letter to Amnesty International, ADL expressed serious concern about the hostility displayed by Amnesty International and its employees towards Israel and its supporters. March 15, 2022
Dr. Agnès Callamard
Secretary General
Amnesty International
1 Easton Street
London, WC1X 0DW, UK
Dear Madam Secretary General,
I am reaching out to express serious concern about the recent hostility displayed by Amnesty International and its employees towards…
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March 14, 2022 In a letter to the Sierra Club, ADL expressed deep disappointment with the organization's decision to cancel trips to Israel. March 14, 2022
Mr. Dan Chu
Acting Executive Director
The Sierra Club
2101 Webster St. Suite 1300
Oakland, CA 94612
Dear Mr. Chu:
We are writing regarding the Sierra Club’s announcement that it has cancelled upcoming trips Israel due to pressure from activists who seek to shut down any form of engagement or…
by: David Andrew Weinberg | December 13, 2021 Thirty years ago, the Gulf state of Kuwait was liberated from Iraqi forces by an American-led military coalition. Its society is exceptionally pluralistic, with large Sunni, Shi’ite and expatriate communities, and it has the most participatory system of government in the Arabian Peninsula.
Kuwait’s new ruler Amir Nawaf Al Sabah took office in September 2020, and during his biggest speech this year he called on the Kuwaiti nation to…
November 05, 2021 Statement on the inclusion of Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn as a panelist at the ADL 2021 Never Is Now Summit on Antisemitism and Hate.
Dr. Hirschhorn's scholarship, teaching, and public engagement work, as well as any casual look through her social media feed, will reveal a thoughtful and active voice speaking out against antisemitism and the harsh demonization of Israel. ADL aims to feature diverse expert voices, and we believe Dr. Hirschhorn will provide…
August 31, 2021 Both ADL and the FBI gather information about bias incidents that target Jews, but there are several differences between the methods. The key difference is that ADL’s reports include information about incidents that do not constitute criminal activity, while the FBI data focuses on actual crimes. Unlike ADL, the FBI’s report also includes information about all hate crimes, which it categorizes by type of bias, including antisemitic bias.
ADL has been…
2020 marked the highest level in 12 years and represents a 6% increase from 2019 New York, NY, August 30, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today expressed deep alarm in response to the FBI’s annual Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA) report, which revealed that 2020 saw a six percent increase in reported hate crimes from the previous year and represented the highest total in 12 years.
In 2020, the FBI reported 7,759 hate crime incidents, a six percent increase from 7,314…
New York, NY, July 27, 2021 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has been engaged in deep dialogue with Unilever management since early last week regarding the decision by the independent board of Ben & Jerry's to stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank. (Ben & Jerry's is a Unilever subsidiary.) The Unilever CEO sent ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt a letter in which the company assured ADL it remains strongly committed to serving the Israeli business…
January 01, 1970 ADL proudly supports the right of the Jewish people, like other peoples, to self-determination. In the case of the Jews, this translates to the right to live in a Jewish, democratic state in their ancient homeland, Israel. ADL believes that the existence of Israel provides Jews with a safe haven from the bigotry and endangerment they have suffered perennially as a minority culture among non-Jewish majority cultures — be it from Tsarist pogroms, Hitler’s Third Reich…
June 11, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Antisemitic incidents more than doubled in May compared to last year following Mideast violence, according to new data from ADL. Online antisemitism grew significantly during the pandemic, with COVID-19 ushering in “a new wave of antisemitic conspiracy theories and hate in Europe,” the European Commission said in a report issued last week. Four members of the same family were killed in a pickup truck attack in London, Ontario in what…
Updated: January 2024 Since 1979, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has compiled data on antisemitic incidents, including both criminal and non-criminal acts, occurring across the United States. These include incidents of harassment, vandalism and assault against individuals and groups. Incident data is gathered from reports from victims, law enforcement and the media, as well as reports obtained by ADL’s 25 regional offices across the country. The data is used to help…
May 24, 2021 As the tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes hold, Israelis – Jew and Arab - are facing the “day after” and the critical work of healing and repair that needs to take place within its own society and citizenry.
As thousands of Hamas rockets sent Israelis fleeing for shelter over the course of the eleven-day conflict, another wound has been opened within Israeli society: nights of violence, looting and horrifying expressions of hatred by Arab…
by: Kenneth Jacobson
The Times of Israel The current crisis in Israel is disturbing on many levels. While there’s nothing new about Hamas raining rockets down on Israeli civilian centers, the heightened levels of sophistication of the rockets, combined with the distressing outburst of inter-communal violence in Israeli cities have added to the stark challenges facing Israel as it moves into the second week of conflict with Hamas.
Undoubtedly, the beginning of this current…
May 20, 2021 In response to the recent conflict in Israel and Gaza, as well as the tensions in Jerusalem that led up to the violence, there have been some prominent voices, including among NGOs and activists, who have engaged in problematic rhetoric about Israel.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always engendered strong passions and differences of opinion. In a crisis, such differences are of course heightened. And while exchanges of views - even harsh disagreements - are…
by: Carole Nuriel | May 14, 2021 The Times of Israel JERUSALEM — The State of Israel and Israeli society are currently in the throes of a major crisis, one of the gravest ever. For several weeks, we have been witnessing events that one after the other have escalated the situation. Now we have reached a point where Israel is engaged in direct warfare with Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, along with a dangerous conflagration inside Israel that threatens to shred the…
Updated: June 1, 2021
Since the start of the May conflict between Israel and Hamas, there have been numerous antisemitic incidents around the world related to the conflict. The perpetrators of these attacks deliberately targeted Jewish institutions in order to express their anger towards Israel.
Whenever anti-Israel actions target synagogues, Jewish community centers, kosher restaurants, Jewish owned businesses, or individual Jews – in other words, holding Jews…
April 30, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
ADL counted 196 cases of antisemitic “Zoombombing” attacks in the U.S. last year, including 114 against Jewish institutions, according to its annual report released this week. Three Georgia men were indicted on federal hate crime charges in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was shot to death while jogging through a South Georgia neighborhood last year. Authorities in New York City are looking for the…
April 02, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
More than half of American Jews continue to experience or witness antisemitic incidents in the form of comments, slurs or threats, according to a new ADL poll. A man suspected of brutally assaulting an Asian American woman in New York City in broad daylight was arrested after surveillance video of the attack drew widespread condemnation. Conservative politicians, including former Trump cabinet member Richard Grenell and freshman congressman Madison…
March 12, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard was fined $50,000, suspended from the team's facilities and banned from team activities after he uttered an antisemitic slur while playing video games. Israeli society is increasingly divided, with 81 percent of Israelis stating that they believe that their society is increasingly divided, a 12 percent increase since 2017, according to a new ADL. survey. A panel of South Carolina lawmakers stripped explicit protections…
More than 50% of Israelis changed their views for the worse of Haredi sector in wake of the COVID-19 crisis Jerusalem, Israel, March 8, 2021 … A new survey of Israeli public attitudes released by ADL (Anti-Defamation League) found that a record 81 percent of Israelis believe that their society is increasingly divided, and the rifts are widening. This represents a marked increase from the 69 percent of Israelis who held those views in a similar poll four years ago.
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New York, NY, December 10, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) applauded the Kingdom of Morocco's historic decision today agreeing to fully normalize relations with the State of Israel. This agreement is especially significant given the longstanding heritage of the Jewish community in Morocco, including an important community there today and hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world with Moroccan family roots, especially in Israel.
"I commend Moroccan, Israeli, and…